HD DVD Coverage at CES 2004

Anonymous Coward writes "It appears manufacturers such as Toshiba will soon be rolling out HD DVD players. The HD DVD format, as opposed to the Blu-Ray standard, involves minimal changes to the manufacturing plants that currently produce DVDs. This should allow for a smoother transition for consumers to adopt this new format. This article DVD vs HD-DVD summarizes the differences of the two formats and benefits of the latter."

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What they don't say

[Pivot]

- is that is mostly an excuse to introduce a new CSS system since the old one is cracked..

great...

[Anonymous Coward]

Next time i go to buy a burner il be asking for a CD-ROM,CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD+R DVD+RW DVD-R DVD-RW HDDVD-ROM, HDDVD-R, HDDVD-RW, BluRay-ROM, BluRay-R, BluRay-RW Drive....

i guess that would be a 52x52x24x16x8x4x8x4x1x1x1x1 Drve...

This can mean only one thing...

[Torgo's Pizza]

AP - SKYWALKER RANCH, Calif.: Thanks to new DVD technology, George Lucas is hurriedly working on a new Special Director's Expanded Edition of the Star Wars saga which features 23 seconds of new footage. Lucas was quoted as saying, "The new HD-DVD format will allow me to present Star Wars as it was always meant to be seen. This now allows us to see the Midichlorians in full detail."

Re:Great, another version to buy

[kabocox]

You know, if the media industry wants us to take their copyright claims seriously, then they need to start giving us some sort of discount as they re-release the same material on new formats. If I've got a license to view/hear it, then that should carry over, and I should only have to pay a small fee to upgrade.

Your small upgrade fee is either $15 or $20.

And then...

[Kjella]

...you'll come home, realize it doesn't play DVD-RAM, and go to have it replaced, right?